SWIZ - Mugs 'n' Stuff....yep! More lamps (and some pendants). - Other Crafts

S swizzle Tiki Socialite Melbourne,Australia Joined: Jun 03, 2007 Posts: 1449	S swizzle Posted posted on Fri, Oct 30, 2015 6:08 PM Thank you Wendy. I'll have a go at anything and some mediums i feel quite comfortable, and enjoy, working with. Wood is one of them. As a kid i was always making ramps to go off on my B.M.X. and then skateboard when i took that up. Now that i'm older i'm just making different things. Thanks tikiskip. I'm having fun making these lights and as i'm not working at the moment it's a good way to fill in the day. I found another trash basket the other day and realised i need to stop buying them for a while and start using them, as i have quite a few laying around in different parts of the house. I just hope i'll be able to sell a few, just to recoup my costs on materials and all the tools i've bought along the way to make them. As for the electric parts i buy everything new. Technically by law here in Australia you need a qualified electrician to do any electrical work but stripping a couple of wires and attaching them to a fitting is not hard. It would be pretty hard to screw that up. I even bought a cheap soldering iron to make the contact points even more professional, as opposed to just screwing down the bare wire. As long as it's only me and not the lamps that are on fire (see above), then that's all that matters :lol: Cheers cy. =============================================================================================================== I had a couple of friends comment that i should make some table/desktop lights as well, not just hanging ones, and finished this one yesterday. I had already had half the pieces for this one ready as i did them at the same time as the previous light, i just had to assemble it the opposite way and work out how to make the base. It threw a few curve balls at me, which i now know how to deal with for the next one, and there's also a couple of flaws which might not be noticable to anyone else but i know what i did wrong and also what i need to do to eliminate them in the future. I also made one really big screw-up right at the end which nearly ruined the whole light, but thankfully i was able to fix it. So here is light #6. Again, the photos of it lit up don't do it justice. It looks much better in person. Not sure how much i'll get done over the next week as we are expecting rain for the next several days, but there are certain things i can do inside so light number #7 shouldn't be too far away. Cheers swizzle

Thank you Wendy. I'll have a go at anything and some mediums i feel quite comfortable, and enjoy, working with. Wood is one of them. As a kid i was always making ramps to go off on my B.M.X. and then skateboard when i took that up. Now that i'm older i'm just making different things.

Thanks tikiskip. I'm having fun making these lights and as i'm not working at the moment it's a good way to fill in the day. I found another trash basket the other day and realised i need to stop buying them for a while and start using them, as i have quite a few laying around in different parts of the house. I just hope i'll be able to sell a few, just to recoup my costs on materials and all the tools i've bought along the way to make them.
As for the electric parts i buy everything new. Technically by law here in Australia you need a qualified electrician to do any electrical work but stripping a couple of wires and attaching them to a fitting is not hard. It would be pretty hard to screw that up. I even bought a cheap soldering iron to make the contact points even more professional, as opposed to just screwing down the bare wire.

As long as it's only me and not the lamps that are on fire (see above), then that's all that matters :lol: Cheers cy.

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I had a couple of friends comment that i should make some table/desktop lights as well, not just hanging ones, and finished this one yesterday. I had already had half the pieces for this one ready as i did them at the same time as the previous light, i just had to assemble it the opposite way and work out how to make the base.

It threw a few curve balls at me, which i now know how to deal with for the next one, and there's also a couple of flaws which might not be noticable to anyone else but i know what i did wrong and also what i need to do to eliminate them in the future.

I also made one really big screw-up right at the end which nearly ruined the whole light, but thankfully i was able to fix it.

So here is light #6. Again, the photos of it lit up don't do it justice. It looks much better in person.

Not sure how much i'll get done over the next week as we are expecting rain for the next several days, but there are certain things i can do inside so light number #7 shouldn't be too far away.

Cheers
swizzle

Post #753399 by swizzle on Fri, Oct 30, 2015 6:08 PM